It's Halloween. Although not aggressively militant about doing so, I typically take 60 min of my evening to reflect on and reminisce about my dad's influence on my embracing a few key aspects and moments from the "Golden Age of Radio." What society experienced in this period is akin to our living through a time before and after the internet. It's that significant. He not only lived through it, he also played a role as a radio operator and specialist. He stored a vast array of radio equipment, tubes, meters and fuses in the narrow workshop at the back of our basement in Pennsylvania. He introduced me to "The War of the Worlds" through his stories of experiencing it and all of the milestones as the ability to communicate took a massive leap from the printed age to electromagnetic waves. And Halloween is the appropriate date for this otherwise antiquated artifact from a time long past. It's an absolutely classic, pivotal moment in media. It seems like there were a lot of gullible people back then. So glad that the direction of broadcast radio and TV evolved to the reason and fact-based information portals that create the society we get to live in today.
